Thread: Kernel vulnerability affects EC2: NULL Pointer Dereference

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Hi. Last week a vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel that basically grants you root access to a machine if you have a normal user account. I’ve tested this in one instance running kernel 2.6.18-xenU-ec2-v1.0.

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